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Welcome to www.peshitta.netfirms.com! This is my small website for promoting the Peshitta (the Aramaic Bible) and Aramaic Peshitta Primacy (and to a lesser extent, Aramaic Peshitto Primacy) - the belief that the New Testament was originally written in Aramaic, and is found in the version known as the "Peshitta", which means "straight". My free book will explain to you why Greek primacy (the belief in the originality of the Greek New Testament) is illogical, and why Old Syriac primacy is a farce, by looking at the historical evidence, and more importantly, the linguistic evidence. (It is also planned for this site to be THE place for FREE study of the Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, English, Peshitta, Peshitto, Old Syriac, etc).

The purpose of this website is primarily to provide FREE downloads of my book:

Was the New Testament Really Written in Greek?

Note: Depending on your browser, you may not be asked if you want to download the file. In that case, right-click the link and select "Save target as".

Please note that due to the size of the topic, as well as the quantity and detail of the internal (linguistic) and external (historical) proofs, this is a very large download.

This file is in the PDF format and will need Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or higher. Click here for a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.

This website also has many other Peshitta-related goodies and Bible research tools (for Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek and English versions), which can be found by clicking on the buttons to the left.

For those familiar with my "Peshitta Primacy Proof" series of articles, they are now obsolete. They have been redone as chapters in this book, which has many more proofs and includes featured articles dealing with Koine Greek / Biblical Greek comparisons, Semitic syntax in the Greek NT, and Bible codes that are found in the Aramaic Peshitta, though lacking in the Greek. All the old Greek Bible contradictions, Greek variants, split words, mistranslations, idioms, Aramaicisms, Semiticisms, Biblical poetry in the Peshitta, and other proofs from the old articles are included. This book will have all the proofs needed to prove Peschitta Primacy (and to a lesser extent, Peschitto Primacy).

With all humility, I believe this book is the biggest and best single source for Aramaic Peshitta primacy proofs - and best of all, it is free (unlike the books by Dr. George Lamsa, translator of the Peshitta and creator of the "Lamsa Bible").

Here is the table of contents from the book, to give a general idea of the topics covered:

I hope this work will encourage you to even just take a look at the Peshitta, which is at best the original NT, and at worst, a very ancient version which solves many Greek problems (just as the LXX is an ancient Greek OT that solves many Massoretic Hebrew problems).

Enjoy!

Christopher Lancaster

peshitta_enthusiast@hotmail.com

Matthew 10:8

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons; freely you have received, freely give.

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Here is the listing of sub-topics for chapters 1-8:

1. Split Words – Undeniable Evidence of Peshitta Primacy

01. Burn or boast? – 1Corinthians 13:3

02. Be an imitator or be zealous? – 1Peter 3:13

03. Power or covering? – 1Corinthians 11:10

04. Her children or her deeds? – Matthew 11:19 / Luke 7:35

05. To compare or to represent? – Mark 4:30

06. Those who are strong or who have power? – Revelation 6:15

07. Saying or thinking? – John 11:31

08. Through the gate or door? – Luke 13:24

09. Suffer or tolerate? – Revelation 2:20

10. To hope or wait? – Romans 8:24

11. In Him, on Him or into Him? – John 3:15

12. Angry or merciful? – Mark 1:41

13. Because, when or since? – John 12:41

14. Beginning or firstfruits? – 2Thessalonians 2:13

15. We shall or let us? – 1Corinthians 15:49

16. Whatsoever place or as many as? – Mark 6:11

17. Disregarded or heard? – Mark 5:36

18. I or she? – Luke 7:45

19. Walking or passing on? – Mark 1:16

20. Paraptoma or hamartia? – James 5:16

21. Of salvation or of life? – Matthew 16:16

22. Alms or righteousness? – Matthew 6:1

23. Heart or understanding? – Ephesians 1:18

24. Bowels or love? – Philippians 1:8, 2:1 / Colossians 3:12 / Philemon 7, 12, 20 / 1John 3:17 / 2Corinthians 6:12

25. Sit or dwell? – Revelation 14:6

26. Shout or voice? – Revelation 14:18

27. To permit or send? – Matthew 8:31

28. Marvelled or afraid? – Matthew 9:8

29. Wearied or harassed? – Matthew 9:36

30. Another or the next? – Matthew 10:23

31. Commandment, word or law? – Matthew 15:6

32. The Big One! A QUADRUPLE split word. Prisoner, servant, bondsman, apostle or “prisoner apostle”, of Yeshua? – Philemon 1:1

33. Beloved or sister? – Philemon 1:2

34. Given to her or it? – Revelation 13:15

35. The Even Bigger One! A SEPTUPLE split word. Intemperate, unclean, unjust, “unjust intemperance”, covetousness, wickedness or iniquity? – Matthew 23:25

36. Wedding or wedding hall? – Matthew 22:10

37. Another or neighbor? – James 4:12

38. Irritated or denied? – Acts 3:14

2. Semi Split Words

01. Hardly die for a righteous man or a wicked man? – Romans 5:7

02. Why hast thou forsaken me or why have you spared me? – Matthew 27:46 / Mark 15:34

03. Camel or rope? – Matthew 19:24 / Mark 10:25 / Luke 18:25

04. Give not a holy thing or hang not earrings? - Matthew 7:6

05. Simon the leper or potter/jar maker? – Matthew 26:6 / Mark 14:3

06. Eunuch or believer? – Matthew 19:12 / Acts 8:27

07. Hate or put aside? – Luke 14:26

08. Salted or scattered/destroyed? – Mark 9:49

09. This generation or this family? – Mark 13:30

10. Pains or cords? – Acts 2:24

11. Bed or coffin? – Revelation 2:20

12. House or among? – Matthew 11:8

13. Voice or sound? – Acts 9:7

14. Teacher or my great one? – Matthew 23:8

15. Perform repeatedly or revert? – Romans 2:1-3

16. Given up to vile passions or diseases of disgrace? – Romans 1:26

17. Cities or talents? – Luke 19:17-19

18. Gall or anger? – Acts 8:23

19. Feet or foot soldiers? – Romans 3:15

20. World or land of Israel? – Acts 11:28

21. Good and food or much and cheer? – Acts 14:17

22. Peace or cultivated land? – James 3:18

23. Peace or cultivated land? Again… – Acts 12:20

24. Join or touch? – Acts 5:13

25. Perfected or finished? – Luke 13:32

26. Walk or work? – Luke 13:33

27. Priest or priests? – Mark 1:44

3. Poetry and Word Plays

01. The beauty that is “Janus Parallelism” – Matthew 13:31-32

02. A word play of common roots for love, owe and neighbour – Romans 13:8

03. The Lord’s Prayer – Matthew 6:9-13

04. Paul the poet! – Philippians 4:8

05. Jesus on mithla and miltha – Luke 8:11

06. The Beatitudes – Matthew 3:12

07. Jesus the poet! – Luke 7:32

08. Oceans of wordplay – Luke 12

09. Signs and miracles – John 4:48

10. Kh’da over the Khad – Luke 15:4-5

11. We are not forsaken – 2Corinthians 4:8-9

12. Separating Pharisees – Luke 17:18-20

13. Simpler and prettier in the Aramaic – Romans 4:25

14. Triple slavery word play – Luke 7:8

15. Amazing poetry with a hidden meaning – 1Timothy 3:16

16. Even foxes have holes – Luke 9:58

17. Concentrated poetry – 1Timothy 5:10

18. Awesome foursome word play – Luke 7:41-42

19. Triple wordplay to Semites in Thessalonica – 1Thessalonians 1:3-5

20. You did not dance nor lament – Matthew 11:17

21. Stephen the poet! – Acts 7:24-26

22. God rewards “non-braggers” – Matthew 6:3-4

23. Parallelisms in the Gospels – Matthew 5:45

24. Revealing poetry – Revelation 17:17

25. Semitic rhyming – Hebrews 12:3

26. Crumbs from the table – Luke 16:21

27. Creative Semitic writing to Titus “the Greek” – Titus 3:4-5

28. Afflicted one – Acts 9:33-34

4. Semitic Idioms

01. Pick up snakes – Mark 16:18

02. Cut it off and pluck it out – Mark 9:43-47

03. Eyes of your heart – Ephesians 1:18

04. Of the household – Ephesians 2:19

05. Bowels of Jesus – Philippians 1:8, 2:1 / Colossians 3:12 / Philemon 7, 12, 20 / 1John 3:17 / 2Corinthians 6:12

06. His face was set – Luke 9:53

07. Their phylacteries and borders – Matthew 23:5

08. Who shall declare his generation? – Acts 8:33

09. Pressed in the spirit – Acts 18:5

10. Son of its hour – Matthew 13:5

11. High mountain – Matthew 4:8 / Luke 4:5

12. To go – John 12:11

13. Son of peace – Luke 10:6

14. Slow of heart and heart burn – Luke 24:25 / Luke 24:32

15. How your breath should depart – Luke 12:11-12

16. Son of his city – Hebrews 8:11

5. Miscellaneous Proofs – Minor Variants, Loan Words, Bad Greek Grammar and More

01. Numerous Aramaic loan words in the Greek – Luke 1:15 / Matthew 12:10 / Luke 2:41 et al

02. Lambs, sheep, sheep? Or lambs, sheep, goats? Or lambs, rams, ewes? – John 21:15-17

03. Miracle or miracles? – John 6:14

04. Bad Greek grammar in Revelation – Revelation

05. The Greek NT quotes the Septuagint? – Matthew 11:10

06. Which or no which? – Acts 10:36

07. Semitic parallelisms in the supposedly Greek Bible – 1Peter 2:14 et al

08. Jesus the non-Levitical high priest – Hebrews 3:1

09. Burnished brass? – Revelation 1:15 / Revelation 2:18

10. For, but or and? – 2Corinthians 2:1

11. Greek Primacist United Bible Society “jumping ship”? – Acts 10:36

12. The Greek NT quotes the Septuagint? Again? – Matthew 22:44

13. A crowd or the crowd? – John 12:12

14. Abba abba – Galatians 4:6

15. Thief or thieves? – 1Thesssalonians 5:4

16. The alpha and the O – Revelation 1:8 / Revelation 21:6 / Revelation 22:13

17. Not even missing – Matthew 8:10

18. Can’t you leave the old reading alone? – Hebrews 1:3

19. As someone somewhere testified – Hebrews 2:6

20. Aramaic explaining Aramaic is no proof of Greek primacy – Mark 3:17 / Mark 15:34 / Acts 1:19

21. Galilee of the Gentiles, Greeks or Arameans? – Matthew 4:15

22. Contention or contentions? – Titus 3:9

23. Must the Scriptures be written in a “global language”? – 2Timothy 3:16 / Acts 17:10-11

24. Chief and chief? Or chief and elder? – Acts 18:8, 17

6. Historical (External) Proofs

01. The Aramaic language

02. The Aramaic Bible

03. What the ancient religious authorities said of the original Bible

04. What the modern authorities say

05. The Septuagint

06. The Greek NT: a pale imitation

07. Other Aramaic versions

08. From Hebrew, to Aramaic, to... Arabic? Where’s the Greek!?

7. Contradictions in the Greek New Testament Prove Peshitta Primacy

01. The Genealogies of Yeshua – Matthew 1:6-16 / Luke 3:21-31

02. Did Joseph name Yeshua? – Matthew 1:21 / Luke 1:31

03. Does God lead us into temptation? – Matthew 6:13 / Matthew 4:3 / 1Thessalonians 3:5

04. Is wisdom vindicated by her children? – Matthew 11:19 / Luke 7:35

05. Was the Ethiopian a eunuch? – Matthew 19:12 / Acts 8:27 / Deuteronomy 23:1

06. Can we be teachers or not? – Matthew 23:8 / Matthew 28:19-20

07. Was Simon really a leper? – Matthew 26:6 / Mark 14:3 / Leviticus 13:45-46

08. Was it really Jeremiah the Prophet? – Matthew 27:9-10 / Zechariah 11:13

09. Was Jesus forsaken? – Matthew 27:46 / Mark 15:34 / Psalms 37:25-28 / John 16:32

10. Was she Greek or not? – Mark 7:26 / Matthew 15:22

11. Shall we sinners maim ourselves? – Mark 9:43-47 / 1Corinthians 6:19-20

12. Is that generation still alive? – Mark 13:30

13. Why does Jesus wake up Peter, James and John, after telling them to “sleep on”? – Mark 14:41 / Mark 14:42

14. Do we need to hate to become good Christians? – Luke 14:26 / Romans 9:13 / 1John 3:15 / 1John 4:20-21

15. Is the Gospel really foolish? – 1Corinthians 1:21 / 2Timothy 3:15-16

16. A medley of Old Testament apologetics

17. God blinded their eyes? – John 12:40 et al

18. Debating about the law and/or Torah is unprofitable and vain? – Titus 3:9 / Matthew 5:17-18

8. Doctrinal Insights from the Peshitta

01. The Sabbath

02. The Divinity of Yeshua

03. Homosexuality

04. The Doctrine of Agape, “the higher love”

05. Tithing, Torah, the Mosaic Law and the New Law

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